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| Danish and Mohd Sami back while Shahid Afridi left out of Pakistan Test team
After failing to make much impact in the ODI series, flamboyant all-rounder
Shahid Afridi was today left out of the 14-member Pakistan cricket squad
for the three-match Test series against India starting November 22.
Apart from Afridi, three others -- Fawad Alam, Rao Iftikhar and Imran Nazir
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Indian Tennis Star Sania Mirza bowled over by Pakistani Fast Bowler Shoaib Akhtar
Shoaib Akhtar may not have set alight the cricket series yet but the Pakistani
speedster has already won an admirer in tennis ace Sania Mirza.
Sania, in the city to watch the second Indo-Pak one day cricket match at Mohali
tomorrow, said she liked Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi as well
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| Shahid Afridi wants to return to opener's role in onedayers
Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi said he is keen to take
on his old role of opening the innings in the one-day series against South Africa.
Afridi has been sent into bat lower down the order for the last few months and
opened only once against Bangladesh in the Twenty20
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Shoaib akhtar banned for 13 ODI matches and is being fined by PCB
Pakistan's temperamental fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was today banned for
13 ODIs and fined Rs 34 lakh by the Pakistan Cricket Board disciplinary committee
for hitting fellow paceman Mohammad Asif with bat.
The PCB disciplinary committee announced that Shoaib had breached the code of
c
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| Shahid Afridi tops Player of Tournament table and Yuvraj singh alone Indian
Shahid Afridi leads the race for the Player of the Tournament award but tomorrow's
final of the Twenty20 World Cup gives Yuvraj Singh, lone Indian in hot
pursuit, yet another chance to pip the Pakistani to the honour.
Afridi has so far polled seven votes to top the table, but there are s
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Shahid Afridi lead the Player of Tournament table in 2020 WC 2007
With his aggressive approach to batting and his penchant for hitting sixes, they
said his game would be ideally suited to the Twenty20 format and true to form,
Shahid Afridi has not disappointed as he sits on top of the Player of the
Tournament ladder at the World Championship.
But the 27-y
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| Pakistan team beat Sri Lanka in twenty20 by 33 runs
Explosive half centuries by skipper Shoaib Malik and Younis Khan
and a splendid bowling performance by Shahid Afridi helped Pakistan
beat Sri Lanka by 33 runs in their Super Eight match of the Twenty20 cricket
World Cup here on Monday.
After posting a formidable total of 189 for six wicket
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Shahid Afridi set to go up the order in Twenty20 World Cup 2007
Pakistan is likely to push Shahid Afridi up the order in the ongoing Twenty20
cricket World Cup after drawing flak for sending the flamboyant all rounder too
late in the matches so far.
Chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed spoke to his colleague Shafqat Rana,
who is with the team, and expressed
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| Shoaib Malik banks on Shahid Afridi firepower to tame Indian team
Playing down the absence of fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan
skipper Shoaib Malik said the presence of explosive striker Shahid Afridi
would provide his team some psychological advantage in the much-awaited Twenty20
clash against India on Friday.
After the disastrous World Cup in the Wes
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Asif Iqbal demands life time ban for Shoaib Akhtar the pakistani bowler
Lambasting the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for creating a spoilt brat like Shoaib Akhtar,
former captain Asif Iqbal demanded a life ban for the erratic
speedster following the Johannesburg brawl that tarnished the country's image.
A furious Asif said Shoaib has done enough damage and should
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| Board is responsible for Shoaib akhtar and Asif incident says Javed Miandad
Former Pakistan great Javed Miandad has held country's cricket Board
responsible for the increasing incidents of indiscipline by players, specially
Shoaib Akhtar, who was today recalled from South Africa after he
hit Asif with a bat during net practice.
"I hold the Board responsible f
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Geoff Lawson Feels No team is favourite at Twenty20 World 07
Pakistan cricket coach Geoff Lawson believes that the battle in the inaugural
Twenty20 World Cup was open and no team was favourite to win the trophy in
South Africa next month.
Lawson also said any team, which wished to win the tournament would have to excel
in all departments of the game
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| Naseem Ashraf happy with players for snubbing Indian cricket league
Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Naseem Ashraf has lauded the country's
players for showing patriotism by turning down lucrative offers to join a break-away
Indian league.
"I am pleased to know players' sentiments and they proved they only want
to play for Pakistan. The league is only s
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Shoaib Akhtar and Shahid Afridi reject Indian Cricket League offer
Pakistan's enigmatic fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar and flamboyant all-rounder
Shahid Afridi have turned down million-dollar offers to play in the rebel
Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Shoaib said hours after clearing a dope test that he was made a good offer from
the ICL organizers but he conside
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| All rounder Shahid Afridi back ICC to implement free hit rule
Flamboyant Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi today said he favoured the
International Cricket Council's new rule of awarding a free hit to batsman after
a no ball delivery in one-dayers, saying it would make the game more entertaining
and exciting.
Afridi said he understood the apprehens
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PCB cricket players differ on new contracts
Less than a month before the new central contracts are put into place, differences
between the Pakistan Cricket Board and players over the terms and conditions
have come to the fore.
After a meeting held in Lahore yesterday to discuss the new format for
the contracts, PCB and captain Shoai
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| Inzamam advices Pakistan players to avoid brushes with officials
Concerned about Pakistani players getting frequent reprimands for their on-field
conduct, former captain Inzamam ul Haq has advised his teammates to avoid
getting into skirmishes with match officials and rival cricketers.
Referring to the reprimand issued to pacer Mohammad Asif during the re
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Inzamam-ul-Haq missing Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi
Pakistan captain Inzamam ul Haq has said the team in the World Cup was
severly missing allrounders Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq, who
were experienced to release pressure on the top order batsmen in one day matches.
Inzamam said the absence of Razzaq and Afridi had put pressure on him, Moh
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| Pakistan defer dope tests on offenders Akhtar and Asif
Pakistan completed dope tests on all but three of their World Cup 15-man
squad and five reserves, but tests on Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif
were deferred, an official said.
Asif is in England for a reassessment of his elbow injury
and on his return will give a test, in the next few day
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It could have been a couple of ODIs ban said Shahid Afridi
Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has termed the four-match ODI ban imposed
on him by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as `harsh`, saying a
two-match ban would have sufficed.
``I think it was harsh decision. It could have been a couple
of ODIs ban,`` he was quoted as saying by the
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